Exhibition : Baroque Splendors

At the Musée Jacquemart-André

Through to August 2nd, 2026.

This spring, the great masters of the Golden Age of Spanish painting are in the spotlight at the Jacquemart-André Museum with the exhibition "Baroque Splendors." And curiously, it is from New York, and more precisely from the prestigious American institution Hispanic Society of America, that the forty Hispanic Baroque works presented to the Parisian public come.

Characterised by its opulence, aesthetics, and themes, Spanish art of the 16th and 17th centuries developed at the heart of a flourishing economic, political, and cultural period corresponding to the Habsburg reign from 1516 to 1700. It is also the period of discoveries and conquests of new territories, of the prosperity of the American colonial empire. At that time, the royal courts at the height of their power became the patrons and sponsors of the greatest artists who would renew Spanish painting through their themes and innovations. It is then the full blossoming and the radiance of the Baroque style at the crossroads of Italian and Flemish influences. Zurbarán, Carreño de Miranda, Murillo, Greco, Velázquez will reign as masters with brilliant vitality over the painting of this era. Their expressive and spiritual works, with a lush and theatrical style, in religious, historical themes or in the art of portraiture, will bring a truly new breath.

The collection of the Hispanic Society of America, founded in 1904 by Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955), represents the oldest and most important institution dedicated to the arts and cultures of the Hispanic world outside the Iberian Peninsula. The buildings housing this remarkable collection of paintings, sculptures, and art objects

in northwest Manhattan are undergoing extensive renovations, so the institution has entrusted a portion of its masterpieces to the Jacquemart-André Museum for this exhibition dedicated to the Golden Age. Visitors will also be able to discover some works by 17th and 18th-century Latin American artists, heirs to this great Spanish pictorial tradition. Combining Western influences with local traditions, these remarkable paintings from the "New World" complement this exhibition off ered in the exceptional setting of the Jacquemart-André Museum.

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